Joe Cole feels the Chelsea board should have recruited players in January

Chelsea favourite Joe Cole has said that the Blues hierarchy took the wrong option of not spending during the January transfer window. The west London giants could not make any new signings last summer due to a two-window transfer ban but they managed to win their appeal over the same at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in December.

As such,
they were free to make new purchase at the turn of the year but surprisingly,
the board took the decision to stick with the same squad of players for the
backend of the season. That has certainly cost the side, who have barely won
over the past few months where a number of key players have suffered injury
setbacks.

Speaking on BT Sport, Cole stressed that Lampard would have been desperate for new additions to the squad in January and the club’s failure to do so has hampered the performances of the team on the playing field, he told: “I think knowing this game was on the horizon, Frank would have been desperate to get players through the door.

“You’ve
asked Giroud, who’s done brilliant for you at the weekend, he’s not been fit
and a 32-year-old striker to come and lead the line against probably one of the
best sides in Europe as the moment, it just looked like he ran out of steam
towards the end. So not recruiting has definitely affected the performance and
the team.”

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